60 THE STATE IN RELATION TO LABOUR. [CHAP.
The Factory and Workshop Ad, 1878.—Tliis Act (41 Viet. cap. 16), which has no preamble at all, consists, in addition to two preliminary sections giving the short title and commencement of Act, of four principal parts, and six schedules. The first part contains the general law relating to factories and workshops, treating in succession of sanitary provisions, the safety of employees, their employment and meal hours, holidays, the education of children, certificates of fitness, and notice and investigation of accidents. Part II. is of a more detailed character, and provides specially for particular classes of factories and workshops as regards health and safety, special restrictions of. employment, special exceptions regarding Jews, meal hours, overtime, night -work, domestic employment, etc. In Part III. the machinery of administration is provided— the appointment of inspectors, certifying surgeons, regulation of clocks, provision of registers, enforcement of penalties, and legal procedure, being provided for. There yet remains Part IV!, which settles the difficult question of definitions of terms, the mocle of application of the Act to Scotland and Ireland, and adds a few trifling exceptions, finally repealing all the previous sixteen Factory Acts, and a few sections of other Acts, as enumerated in the sixth schedule. There are, moreover, five important . schedules, giving detailed lists of occupations subject to certain special restrictions or exceptions. Such, however, are the complications of this remarkable code of law,—the mere table of contents filling eight pages and the text sixty-five,—that anything approaching to a commentary upon its effects would fill a large volume. In addition to several publications of Mr. Alexander Redgrave, a text-